Photo Gallery: Guitar World Magazine Ads from the 1980s, Part 1

Photo Gallery: Guitar World Magazine Ads from the 1980s, Part 1

Posted 09/26/2011 at 1:19pm | by Damian Fanelli

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Big Hair: 1980s Guitar World Ads

An interesting photo gallery of ads from two issues of Guitar World from the late '80s.

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As you might've noticed, with each new week, we look back at a particular year's issues of Guitar World magazine.

We do this so we can find -- and post -- cool stories from the past, including our final interview with Stevie Ray Vaughan from 1989, which is coming up this week, and our past interviews with Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, David Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen, Ted Nugent ... you get the idea.

But, as we dig through Guitar World issues from the late '80s, we can't help but ... truly enjoy some of the ads. I don't know -- maybe it's just us -- but take a look at this batch of ads from two random issues from 1987, and tell us if you want to see more!

There's a lot more where these came from ...

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Guitar World Magazine Ads from the 1980s

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drolaw

November 26, 2011 at 4:28pm

More please!

RonZabrocki

September 26, 2011 at 7:08pm

I miss the ad's in the 80's! Everything was over the top!

Kevin Williams

September 26, 2011 at 5:55pm

WHAT is that Gibson in the first ad?

riffsalot

September 27, 2011 at 7:54am

HIDEOUS! is WHAT it is AHHH. . . but I'm pretty sure the half-sane looking guy in the middle is Wayne Charvel. . .

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